You got me... Jessica Alba?
Posted on 08/08/2006 7:32:03 AM PDT by Baconian
There's a stench in the air that's covering the countryside. It isn't from farmers spreading manure as fertilizer. It isn't from factories, exhaust emissions or municipal landfills. The stench is the flatulence being produced from the decadent character of those who will say anything and promise anything to get elected or re-elected to national office.
It's election time, and the landscape is littered with those who think you are dumb enough to believe whatever they say are the problems, believe whatever they claim it takes to address said problems, and that they are the solution to said problems. Sadly, in most cases, they analyze correctly.
American politics aren't about solving problems, nor are they any longer about addressing the concerns of the people (if indeed they ever were). American politics are about joining a very small, very elite fraternity – which makes up its own rules, provides for its own best interest, and whose members are not subject to the laws and provisions that govern the proletariat.
American politics have become, at best, a taxpayer-funded brothel and/or liars club comprised of hedonistic opportunists. Many claim the system is corrupt. I submit it isn't the system; rather, it is the ne'er-do-wells who have been permitted to conscript it.
Granted, without laws we would be reduced to chaos and anarchy, but do we really need 535 men and women micro-managing the daily lives of some 300 million? Take a closer look at those who control our daily lives. When did John Murtha, D-Pa.; Ted Kennedy, D-Mass.; Lincoln Chafee, R-R.I.; Dick Durbin, D-Ill.; Charles Rangel, D-N.Y.; Cynthia McKinney, D-Ga.; William Jefferson, D-La.; Randall "Duke" Cunningham, R-Calif.; Sheila Jackson Lee, D-Texas; Harry Reid, D-Nev., ad nauseum, become the final word and absolute authority on what is best for our daily lives? At best they are the equivalent of department store shoe salesmen – barely able to control their own lives – yet they daily pass laws under the auspices of knowing what's best for us. Truth be told, the majority of this referenced group would be in prison if not in Congress.
Politicians do not act in your best interest unless you are a member of NAMBLA and you voted for Barney Frank, D-Mass. Politicians act based on what those with the deepest pockets persuade them to do. They follow the directives of lobbyists representing the interests of entities 99.9 percent of Americans will never see and in many instances do not even know exist.
One of the primary causal factors in the creation of our form of government was to eliminate kings and queens. Yet that is exactly the way those on Capitol Hill behave. There are only so many reasons a person is willing to spend tens of millions of their own money to get a job that pays $165,000 a year – and while certain of those reasons may be altruistic, it's a safe bet that the greater majority of same are totally self-serving.
The McCain-Feingold-Cochran so-called campaign-reform bill served only one purpose, and that was to control what the voters could say and/or hear pursuant to those running for office. In brief, they were insulating themselves from public scrutiny leading up to elections.
The American people have been led to believe they are limited per the rights and powers they have. The reason for this is simple: It is the way the elected indemnify themselves from the wrath that would surely come if the voters were to ever regain their senses.
Most voters, like it or not, aid and abet in the conspiracy that keeps them in check. They blame one party or the other party, when in truth both parties are comprised of those who care only about themselves. It is time the voters wake up and realize that the self-serving promises (read: lies) of those eager to join the Capitol Hill fraternity are nothing more than verbal sleight of hand.
America was "created by the people and for the people," but the people have bought into the lie that someone else knows what is best for them. The people have abdicated their right to control themselves. The people have become so caught up in the electoral process, as it is defined by those vying for office, that they have become like mice on tread-wheels: running around in circles to get the most gifted prevaricator elected – then complaining when nothing changes.
It is time we made it clear that they work for us. Special-interest groups with deep pockets have figured it out. Until the rest of us figure this out, politicians will treat us like another name for lollipops.
The bottom line is that if you are not willing to fight for what belongs to you, i.e., your freedoms, then you have no right to complain when usurpers take it.
Mychal Massie is a nationally recognized political activist, pundit and columnist. He is host of the radio show "Straight Talk," and has appeared on the Fox News Channel, CNN, MSNBC, NBC, Comcast Cable and talk radio programming nationwide. He is a member of the conservative public policy institute National Center for Public Policy Research-Project 21.
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You got me... Jessica Alba?
So true.
"they are the equivalent of department store shoe salesmen – barely able to control their own lives"
THIS IS AN OUTRAGEOUS LIBEL AGAINST DEPARTMENT STORE SHOE SALESMEN!
Most pimps and crack dealers have higher ethical standards than the politicians listed in this article.
That's what I was going to say. This guy must have really got screwed the last time he bought shoes!
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